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Anti-authoritarianism is a core part of the hacker ethos, so much so it’s even in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

Typically I agree, NYT on China is usually fear mongering, but in this case the article is very neutral and just the facts. I mean, it's the same kind of thing Palantir is selling …

I ask that you please read the comments before you make your own comments, just as you asked people to read the paper before commenting (I did!) > Your assertion that it is all cul…

Harry Partch has a book Genesis of a Music, which is half autobiography and half a theory that all melody derives from the micro pitch variations of speech - as in melody is a stre…

You might like the book Emotion and Meaning in Music - it starts from some outdated psychological ideas (that emotions are only intensity and that we assign positive/negative valen…

Yeah, that's really getting to the heart of why the idea of a totally objective theory of music seems legit. Major/minor doesn't exist in a vacuum, there's a lot of other signifier…

I meant "fully scientific theory of harmony" in the same way your second paragraph does, not as predictor of popularity but predictor of what kind of effect it raises in the listen…

I read through a lot of this article and it does a good job explaining the ratios and math behind harmonics and how that makes chords, but ideas like lower ratios are more pleasant…

He means specifically open vs closed AI model development, and how that’s topsy-turvy for the reasons you mention.

Hmmm, seems like that is not true for Roku which is specifically the one that is bad - maybe I'll just grab an Onn or something

I just set up Jellyfin on an 1819 this weekend and so far it seems great, dunno if it’s improved or my device has bit more oomph - the ui on some devices is not as nice as plex but…

Very cool - I made my first game in BASIC over 25 years ago and now I'm still making games - I've been looking for a good BASIC to help teach my kids programming because pygame, sc…

Also AAA dev, this is true but also the original comment about “engine feel” still holds, since the whole point is studios are trying to spend less time engine wrangling, and keep …

After years of dipping into random chapters for reference I read through the first 2.5 volumes sequentially until life got too busy. I plan on gifting the current full set to mysel…

Exams are usually discussed and part of the corpus though right? Performance on novel problems are really the only good metric and those decay really quickly across models once the…

I recently did a feasibility test for porting complex c++ project to a stripped down DSP processor with no c or c++ stdlib without making changes to the actual project - sonnet was…

An administration that ran on anti-war, less regulation, free speech, and the news is war, AI models being regulated, and requiring identification for speech. Maybe the current adm…

My favorite Jimmy Buffet story - after a gig everyone was hanging out partying, when they realized Jimmy wasn’t there. Someone went to his room to find him, and he was deep in runn…

I read about this previously and had the same reaction - something seems missing, it’s too crazy, this has gotta be just one side of the story. Normal reaction in this media landsc…

I remember lack of generics being pitched as a feature of Go initially, not a lack. The original design goal was simplicity. I don’t use Go, so have no opinion on this, just intere…

He finally realized that you could just rsync

I have to mainly drive Windows 11 for work reasons so I use komorebi for a tiling window manager (highly recommended btw). I bet the ideas in this post can be applied in that envir…

IIRC the interview that quote was from came with the story - Russia was seen as a lost cause by the game industry, there was so much piracy that nobody even bothered trying to give…

You’re spot on. I’ve lived in Atlanta for many years, grew up with family in northeast, so I know how to drive in snow and have seen how Boston, New York and Atlanta all deal with …